Fantastic! Very useful video. Question for you fellows out there. My 2005 Yamaha Royal Star tour deluxe wabbles once it passes 60/65 miles an hour. It really gives me goosebumps. I just order this manual air pump, I see no leakage at all on the rear shock absorber, but I do not rule out any problems with it. Do you think this lack of pressure is causing the wabble after the 65mh? The tires are good and air pressure on both tires is OK as well. I appreciate you feedback. Than you so much. Do have a great day all.
My shock is leaking on my Royal Star tour deluxe. I plan to pull it off and send it to Dave! Thanks for the info! I was wondering if removal of the shock was a pain in the butt. It looks pretty straightforward. I'm going to wait until the end of the current riding season probably though. I'm in the northeast and I want to take full advantage of the weather before it changes in the late fall, and I have to put it away just before the snow. I've heard some guys inflate their shock with a bike pump too.
David Fitzgerald does a wonderful repair by installing new seal and fluid. Contact Dave If you have a leaky shock. Www.venturerider.org David Fitzgerald dfitzbiz@yahoo.com is this what you're looking for?
there is another way to put air in your air shock without that pump my compressor has a gauge on it indicating the line pressure. I will shut off the valve from my tank into my hose. And I will bleed off most of the pressure still remaining in the hose, practically down to nothing. That is a lot of air still in the hose even when it’s down to practically nothing when you’re talking about putting air into the forks. I will take my hose and just for an instant transfer the air remaining in the hose into each fork one at a time. I have developed the touch required to not overfill each fork. I use my low pressure gauge and bleed off any excess air in each fork. for the rear shock I do the same thing, I just don’t bleed off as much air out of the hose when I shut the tank off I am a maintenance junkie I have videos here on TH-cam of some of the maintenance I have done on my new to me 2008 royal star venture here in 2021/2022. I had a GL 1800 Goldwing before my current venture, I didn’t like the gold wing, I went back to a venture..( my 3rd venture since 1986… on my 86 Venture I upgraded the rear shocks spring and fork springs to Progressive brand springs and the improvement was astronomical. I did not need air in the shock or the forks anymore after I upgraded to those springs. I also did the same thing to my GL 1800 Goldwing which I bought when it was 16 years old but only had 13,000 miles in the original tire still on it. Those springs were shot from holding all that weight up all those years. I believe the original owner I bought the machine from did not use the center stand.. I could feel that those suspension springs were just flat, had no life left in them. but, the machine I had before the Goldwing, was my second venture, a 2002 Yamaha royal star midnight Venture with 48K on it when I bought it. That had air suspension… The suspension on that was crap. There was not an aftermarket upgrade kit for the spring on the rear shock. I realized that air was the additional spring if needed. Air is not a good spring. It has a rising rate, the more it compresses, the more it wants to snap back. It does not have a constant pressure. It has a rising rate..On motocross bikes, they have Schrader valves on the forks, that’s to let the excess pressure that builds as the heat builds out, that is not to add air.. so instead of replacing the shock, and since I could not replace the spring as I did on my 86 Venture. I knew that oil in suspensions gets cookedover time. I used to road race motorcycles, and I knew that the high finance teams changed the shock oil after every race. I spoke to a shock specialist a few times, and he said, that oil gets cooked, and should be changed often so I removed the rear shock for my 2002 royal star venture, and I drained the oil from the shock through the air hose hole in the shock. I let that shock absorber drain into a ratio rite overnight so I could measure exactly how many CCS of oil I got out of that shock. The shock was not leaking oil, so I replaced that cooked oil which was black, with fresh fork oil, the same exact amount I got out of the shock through that same hole that the air hose attaches to.. it was easy.. I did it to get the acids and metal abrasive particles that may have been in the oil out of the shock absorber before they could damage the seal, the piston, and the O-rings inside the shock. while I had the shock absorber off, I removed, cleaned, re-greased all of this suspension linkage bearings and bushings and seals as well as lubing the top pushing for the shock absorber bolt and the rubber bushing.. was it an improvement in suspension compliance and ride? not that I noticed. was it a relief knowing that I did my best to avoid the shock failing from neglect? Absolutely
Fantastic! Very useful video. Question for you fellows out there. My 2005 Yamaha Royal Star tour deluxe wabbles once it passes 60/65 miles an hour. It really gives me goosebumps. I just order this manual air pump, I see no leakage at all on the rear shock absorber, but I do not rule out any problems with it. Do you think this lack of pressure is causing the wabble after the 65mh? The tires are good and air pressure on both tires is OK as well. I appreciate you feedback. Than you so much. Do have a great day all.
My shock is leaking on my Royal Star tour deluxe. I plan to pull it off and send it to Dave! Thanks for the info! I was wondering if removal of the shock was a pain in the butt. It looks pretty straightforward. I'm going to wait until the end of the current riding season probably though. I'm in the northeast and I want to take full advantage of the weather before it changes in the late fall, and I have to put it away just before the snow. I've heard some guys inflate their shock with a bike pump too.
where is this info at? under notes? iguess i dont know where that is or something
David Fitzgerald does a wonderful repair by installing new seal and fluid. Contact Dave If you have a leaky shock.
Www.venturerider.org
David Fitzgerald dfitzbiz@yahoo.com
is this what you're looking for?
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there is another way to put air in your air shock without that pump
my compressor has a gauge on it indicating the line pressure.
I will shut off the valve from my tank into my hose. And I will bleed off most of the pressure still remaining in the hose, practically down to nothing. That is a lot of air still in the hose even when it’s down to practically nothing when you’re talking about putting air into the forks.
I will take my hose and just for an instant transfer the air remaining in the hose into each fork one at a time. I have developed the touch required to not overfill each fork. I use my low pressure gauge and bleed off any excess air in each fork.
for the rear shock I do the same thing, I just don’t bleed off as much air out of the hose when I shut the tank off
I am a maintenance junkie I have videos here on TH-cam of some of the maintenance I have done on my new to me 2008 royal star venture here in 2021/2022. I had a GL 1800 Goldwing before my current venture, I didn’t like the gold wing, I went back to a venture..( my 3rd venture since 1986…
on my 86 Venture I upgraded the rear shocks spring and fork springs to Progressive brand springs and the improvement was astronomical. I did not need air in the shock or the forks anymore after I upgraded to those springs. I also did the same thing to my GL 1800 Goldwing which I bought when it was 16 years old but only had 13,000 miles in the original tire still on it. Those springs were shot from holding all that weight up all those years. I believe the original owner I bought the machine from did not use the center stand.. I could feel that those suspension springs were just flat, had no life left in them.
but, the machine I had before the Goldwing, was my second venture, a 2002 Yamaha royal star midnight Venture with 48K on it when I bought it. That had air suspension… The suspension on that was crap. There was not an aftermarket upgrade kit for the spring on the rear shock. I realized that air was the additional spring if needed. Air is not a good spring. It has a rising rate, the more it compresses, the more it wants to snap back. It does not have a constant pressure. It has a rising rate..On motocross bikes, they have Schrader valves on the forks, that’s to let the excess pressure that builds as the heat builds out, that is not to add air..
so instead of replacing the shock, and since I could not replace the spring as I did on my 86 Venture. I knew that oil in suspensions gets cookedover time. I used to road race motorcycles, and I knew that the high finance teams changed the shock oil after every race. I spoke to a shock specialist a few times, and he said, that oil gets cooked, and should be changed often
so
I removed the rear shock for my 2002 royal star venture, and I drained the oil from the shock through the air hose hole in the shock. I let that shock absorber drain into a ratio rite overnight so I could measure exactly how many CCS of oil I got out of that shock. The shock was not leaking oil, so I replaced that cooked oil which was black, with fresh fork oil, the same exact amount I got out of the shock through that same hole that the air hose attaches to.. it was easy..
I did it to get the acids and metal abrasive particles that may have been in the oil out of the shock absorber before they could damage the seal, the piston, and the O-rings inside the shock.
while I had the shock absorber off, I removed, cleaned, re-greased all of this suspension linkage bearings and bushings and seals as well as lubing the top pushing for the shock absorber bolt and the rubber bushing..
was it an improvement in suspension compliance and ride? not that I noticed. was it a relief knowing that I did my best to avoid the shock failing from neglect? Absolutely
Good deal. I would like to replace my front springs to progressive on my 08. When you coming over to help?
Hello from Romania ! How can i contact David Fitzgerald ?
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